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AN ACT RELATIVE TO ANIMAL FIGHTING OR CRUELTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

Section 95 of chapter 272 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 5 and 6, the words “two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- $1,000 or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 2½ years or by both such fine and imprisonment.